About 40 percent of the nation’s charities — or more than 300,000 organizations — gained tax-exempt status in just the past decade, a growth record that is unprecedented in recent American history. In ...

Clark G. Gilbert is the former president of Brigham Young University-Idaho and its online-learning arm, BYU-Pathway Worldwide ...

This article was originally published in Oklahoma Voice. OKLAHOMA CITY — A new office within the Oklahoma State Department of Education will promote expressions of religion and patriotism in public ...

Spiritually strengthening and intellectually enlarging experiences are two aims BYU students work towards during their college careers. Religion is directly involved in the pursuit of knowledge at BYU ...

Controversies regarding religion in the classroom in the United States are as old as the public school system itself. Most recently, a Louisiana law mandates that posters of the Ten Commandments be ...

Efforts to inject religion into your child’s education are continuing to gain steam in Idaho. As Ryan Suppe of Idaho Education News highlighted last week, a new lawsuit filed by a church that had been ...

For the past four decades, American women have been earning more college degrees than American men. They have been earning more master’s degrees since 1987 and more doctoral degrees since 2006, and ...

The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), a national private school voucher program, harms public education and undermines the fundamental American principle of the separation of church and ...

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. In modern America, religious education is offered in private schools or in a homeschooling ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to "bury what remains of church-state separation," said Mark Joseph Stern in Slate. During oral arguments, the court's conservative majority signaled sympathy toward a ...

The growing controversy surrounding school vouchers and their use in private religious education is once again emerging. With public dollars increasingly directed toward faith-based schools, the ...

Government subsidy to church schools is unconstitutional. Most state constitutions forbid it, as does the First Amendment to the federal Constitution, which states ...